2 1 8 September 1 749. 



blend *, Now and then, and but very fel- 

 dom, there is a grain of lead-ore. The 

 mountains near the fhore confift fometimes 

 of a black fine-grained horn-ftone, and a 

 ferruginous lime-done. The horn-ftone in 

 that cafe is always in three or four times as 

 great a quantity as the lime-done, 



JN this neighbourhood there is likewife 

 afulphureous fpring, having exactly the fame 

 qualities as that which 1 have before de- 

 fcribed. The broad-leaved Reed Mace -^ 

 grows in the very fpring, and fucceeds ex- 

 tremely well. A mountain-afh flood near 

 it, whofe berries were of a pale yellow 

 fading colour, whereas on all other moun- 

 tain-a(hes they have a deep red colour. 



THEY make great quantities of tar at 

 bay St. Paul. We now pafled near a place 

 in which they burn tar, during fummer. 

 It is exactly the fame with ours in Eaft- 

 'Bothnia, only fomewhat lefs ; though J 

 have been told, that there are fometimes 

 very great manufactures of it here. The 

 tar is made folely of the Pin rouge*., or 

 red Pine. All other firs, of which here 

 are feveral kinds, are not fit for this pur- 



pofe, 



* Former's Introd. to Mineralogy, p. 50. Zincum fteri- 

 lum, Linn. Syft. Nat. III. p. 126. Ed. XII. 



f Typba, lati folia, Linn. 



\ Pinus foliis geminis longis ; ramis triplici fafciculo 

 foliorum terminals, conis ovatis lavibus. Flor. Canad. 



